Circuit Bending

Casio MT-200

The MT-200's auto accompaniment section sounds very peculiar (with chorus function) and the drum sounds exude the flair of C64 drums, especially after modification. Sadly, it only offers 6 different patterns and no fill-in function, thus harshly limiting possibilities of variation.

I often use it, anyhow, and the melody sounds are beautifully minimal. I built in the following modifications:

• Mute switch for bass and chords
• Mute switch for 3 drum sounds BD, SN, HH
• dditional "tempo fine" controller
• Sustain values of bass and chord sounds can be altered by switch
• Decay values of BD, SN and HH can be altered

Sound example